The economy is slowing but it is still the fastest-growing among big EU countries.
It said the EU's big bail-out fund would be temporary, but it is being made permanent.
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This is a big, positive step for the EU in its three-year-old sovereign debt crisis.
In short, EU business-as-usual was a big loser at last week's polls.
In contrast Mr Kostunica has, in effect, said that the possibility of co-operation ended once the EU began deploying a big mission in Kosovo.
He points out that one of the last big industrial employers in the constituency - the Ford Transit van factory - has taken EU grants and moved production to Turkey.
The smaller states are also alarmed at proposals to cut their voting powers, and to scrap the rotating six-month stints at running the EU presidency that all countries, big and small, currently get.
The danger of a big disruption of oil and gas supplies makes it more necessary to develop an EU-wide energy market and grids.
Meanwhile there are a number of local battles with smaller parties like the Greens and the anti-EU UK Independence Party fighting hard to capitalise on disillusion with the big three parties.
Many in France feel the EU has become too big, too open, too liberal and too English-speaking.
Every six years or so, the EU has a big political fight about the size and structure of its next multi-annual budget.
Four big Chinese solar panel firms asked their government to "immediately seek high-level dialogue with the EU to find a way to improve the situation".
While the commission is confident the plan is legally sound, the long arm of the levy has raised the hackles of big investment banks, as well as the UK and Luxembourg, which rejected such an EU-wide tax.
Germany's EU partners reckon that a country with a budget close to balance and a big current-account surplus could do more.
The EU is resuming tough negotiations on its multi-year budget, with leaders warning that big differences remain ahead of a Brussels summit this week.
EU. It must prove itself a strong and far-sighted country, not merely a big or a stubborn one.
Despite a big road-building programme, mostly paid for by the European Union, Polish roads are among the worst in the EU: 35 people died on them over Easter.
Mr Monti, an unelected technocrat, has pushed through some unpopular but long-delayed reforms, including big public service cuts, since taking over from Mr Berlusconi a year ago with the EU's approval.
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